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There are authoritarian tactics already at work in the United States. To root them out, you have to know where to look.
Michael McFaul witnessed Vladimir Putin’s crackdown on dissent as U.S. ambassador to Russia. He has a warning for Americans.
McFaul and host Garry Kasparov discuss how recent moves by the Trump administration mirror the consolidation of power that McFaul saw after Putin was re-elected Russian president in 2012.
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Garry chairs the Renew Democracy Initiative, publisher of The Next Move.
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Autocracy in America
There are authoritarian tactics already at work in the United States. To root them out, you have to know where to look.
